
Unholy wood: how to deal with catastrophic wildfires
First Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
Read MoreFirst Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
Read MoreTwenty-twenty. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered for it when it arrived. In the past, 2020 has had …
Read MoreIt is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism (or, rather, according to the new guidelines, climate crisis or …
Read MoreNote: While this story is about Australia, the same issues apply to charitable sectors in all Western countries. An important thing to remember about large parts of the government bureaucracy and …
Read MoreWhere the bloody hell are you? Not in Australia apparently. While no official figures are available yet, anecdotal evidence from international tour operators suggests significant cancellations (according to one report, …
Read MoreVictoria is officially the safest state in Australia if you’re looking to escape the firebugs: Victoria Police say the fires engulfing the eastern part of Victoria are not being treated as …
Read MoreMyself, as well as other people with families and friends overseas, are getting concerned and panicky messages to check if we’re safe in light of the catastrophic megafires that have …
Read MoreThe piece I have put together the other day about the 200 or so people who have been arrested – and most charged – with setting a significant amount of …
Read MoreAccording to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire crisis has now passed 200. This figure is not presented …
Read MoreThe former Labor Environment Minister, and a wistful reminder of the time when Labor had serious politicians, Graham Richardson, asks a very good question: Just how did Australia fall from a …
Read MoreScott Morrison has cut short his Hawaiian holiday to inhale some Sydney air, which is pretty much the only thing the PM will be able to do back home over …
Read MoreThe old communists, if they didn’t like you, would simply kill you. The new woke left merely wishes you would die to make a way for a better, more caring …
Read MoreThe shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
Read MoreAn interesting exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the working class) and a writer and journalist Jane Caro (the wokeing class) about the forest fires and climate change: Put …
Read MoreThe wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
Read MoreHow old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime ago. The first book I’ve read on the topic, still …
Read MoreNo one has been gluing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men and women haven’t been in the news lately. Take Roger: …
Read MoreThere was a real risk of that happening between 1945 and 1989 and not in a good way, but in the 21st century it’s all “atoms for peace”: After at …
Read MoreAmidst the terrible fires raging across California, there is a glimmer of good news – the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley has been saved from destruction. By a …
Read MoreIt seems like Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali stole even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, beating the 16-year old Swedish Apocalyptic who seemed …
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